The wind has blown away the town. It has gone to ruin. Because everything is in
ruins, everything has been degraded. But I could also say that they have ruined
and degraded everything. Because this is not some kind of cataclysm, coming
about with so-called innocent human aid. On the contrary, it is about man's own
judgement, his own judgement over his own self, which of course God has a hand
in, or dare I say: takes part in. And whatever he takes part in is the most
ghastly creation that you can imagine. Because, you see, the world has been
debased. So it doesn't matter what I say, because everything has been debased
that they have acquired. And since they have acquired everything in a sneaky,
underhand fight, they have debased everything. Because whatever they touch -
and they touch everything - they have debased. This is the way it was until the
final victory. Until the triumphant end. Acquire, debase, debase, acquire. Or I
can put it differently if you like: To touch, debase and thereby acquire, or to
touch, acquire and thereby debase. And it has been going on like this for
centuries. On, on and on. This and only this, sometimes on the sly, sometimes
rudely, sometimes gently, sometimes brutally, but it has been going on and on.
Yet only in one way, like a rat attack from ambush. Because for this perfect
victory, it was also essential that the other side, everything that is
excellent, great in some way and noble, should not engage in any kind of fight.
There shouldn't be any kind of struggle, just the sudden disappearance of one
side, meaning the disappearance of the excellent, the great, the noble. So that
by now these winning winners who attack from ambush rule the earth, and there
isn't a single tiny nook where one can hide something from them, because
everything they can lay their hands on is theirs. Even things we think they
can't reach - but they do reach - are also theirs. Because the sky is already
theirs and all our dreams. Theirs is the moment, nature, infinite silence. Even
immortality is theirs, you understand? Everything, everything is lost forever.
And those many noble, great and excellent just stood there, if I can put it
that way. They stopped at this point, and had to understand, and had to accept,
that there is neither god nor gods. And the excellent, the great and the noble
had to understand and accept this right from the beginning. But of course, they
were quite incapable of understanding it. They believed it and accepted it, but
they didn't understand it. They just stood there, bewildered, but not resigned,
until something, that spark from the brain, finally enlightened them. And all
at once they realized that there is neither god nor gods. All at once they saw
that there is neither good nor bad. Then they saw and understood that if this
was so, then they themselves do not exist either. You see, I reckon this may
have been the moment when we can say that they were extinguished, they burnt
out. Extinguished and burnt out like the fire left to smoulder in the meadow.
One was a constant loser, the other was the constant winner. Defeat, victory,
defeat, victory, and one day - here in the neighborhood - I had to realize, and
I did realize, that I was mistaken, I was truly mistaken when I thought that
there has never been and could never be any kind of change here on earth.
Because, believe me, I know now that this change has indeed taken place.